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CAMAYES

Volume 2 · 55 words · 1771 Edition

in commerce, cotton linens made at Bengal, at Madras, and some other places on the coast of Coromandel.

CAMBER-beam, among builders, a piece of timber in an edifice, cut archwise, or with an obtuse angle in the middle, commonly used in platforms, as church-boards, and on other occasions where long and strong beams are required.